Andrew Luck

In 1983, in his first start, Dan Marino entered the huddle and tried to call a play. It came out all wrong. The string of meticulous words he studied for months didn't connect into anything understandable.

"I got it," veteran receiver Nat Moore said.

Moore called the play, Marino went on to throw three touchdowns that day and Don Shula was so uncharacteristically elated in a Miami Dolphins loss to Buffalo that he said afterward, "The magic is back."

First games for NFL quarterbacks are rarely like that, simultaneously overwhelming and offering a porthole to an electric future. Maybe Sunday's debut of Los Angeles quarterback Jared Goff is all that...

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